A struggle is underway in internet governance between two competing governance structures. The first structure, multistakeholderism, continues in some ways the informality and public-private partnerships that have characterised the internet since its inception. Today however, internet governance is rapidly moving away from its multistakeholder origins towards an alternative structure rooted in multilateralism. I recently analysed the struggle between multistakeholderism and multilateralism, and the role played therein by international law, in ‘Another Swing of the Pendulum? The International Rule of Law and the “Splinternet”’ (published in Rule of Law in a Transitional Spectrum). This blog post briefly outlines the main contours of the struggle analysed in the longer piece.